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Complex numbers are awesome for bashing through (some) IMO geometry problems. Points P, Q, R are collinear exactly when (p-q)/(p-r) is real, rotation is multiplication by exp(iϕ), etc.

Has anyone with a Usenet subscription checked if there's now an alt.binaries.llm.exfil?

This may be the case, but as a Helsinki resident I am always surprised when visiting either Stockholm or Tallinn, because their drivers always seem more likely to honor zebra crossings than drivers in Helsinki.

I don't know about German law, but in Finnish law you can only appeal to the trial period if you have an acceptable reason related to the trial period. For example, if the employee isn't performing well, that is a legal reason to annul the work agreement during the trial period. But selling the business to investors or having financial difficulties because of the economy are not acceptable reasons, since they are not related to the specific recently-hired employee.

It cuts both ways: the employee can walk out during the trial period for reasons such as feeling like they didn't fit in, or the work being different from what they imagined. But if they merely find a better-paying job elsewhere, they cannot invoke the trial period but have to give notice in the usual way.

Why the number 2,280? What keeps you from adding peasants until your projectile travels at 0.99c?

I have the "Relax & Sleep" pair. I got mine from a Finnish reseller, and thought they were a global company but they seem to list only European locations. I believe thomann.de delivers to the U.S., but that's little help since the point of these would be to get them made individually.

I would assume that your local audiologist or music instrument store will know what the U.S. equivalent to these is. It seems to me that Elacin's biggest market is musicians who want a comfortable pair of earplugs with a flat frequency response.

curl wttr.in

Not a full solution, but one thing I've learned not to do is tell Cursor "you got that wrong, fix it like this". Instead, I go back to the previous prompt and click "Restore Checkpoint", edit the prompt and possibly the Cursor rules to steer it in the right direction.

When the model has the wrong solution in its context, it will use it when generating new code, and my feeling is that it doesn't handle the idea of "negative example" very well. Instead, delete the bad code and give it positive examples of the right approach.

> it seems not a huge computational task to figure out that ] is a `\right]`

TeX's design was finalised in 1982, when the computational resources were different by a few orders of magnitude. There is a very strong culture of backward compatibility (search for "A torture test for TeX") and there are so many equations written in TeX documents that it would be impossible to change the parsing now.

That said, something like MathJax would be free to create their own TeX-like syntax where parentheses are automatically paired.

I for one often find myself wanting more control, writing `\bigr]` or `\biggr]` instead of `\right]` to get the rendered equation to look good.

> And while rendering `(a+b)/a` as a `\frac` is opinionated, honestly, the only reason why this occurs in my notes is when I was too lazy to type `\frac{}{}`.

Plain TeX has the much nicer syntax `{a+b \over a}` but for some obscure reason LaTeX recommends against that.